The Fuzhou Parade of Gods, a centuries-old village tradition from China, lives on in Brooklyn, carried by a new generation of immigrants.

China’s museum sector has expanded at an unmatched pace this century. From 2010 to 2024, a new museum has opened, on average, every 1.5 days. There were 382 new museums registered in 2022 alone – and ...

This Ramadan, as I sit down with a hot bowl of lentil soup and freshly made Uyghur noodles to break my day-long fast, I try very hard not to think about my father, thousands of miles away, in a prison ...

A documentary filmmaker sparked a discussion of advanced Martian civilizations after sharing footage that appeared to depict ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?

Combining the writing on the bones with paleoclimate reconstructions, the team found how typhoon activity helped shift the ...

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

President Trump warned that he could postpone a meeting set to begin in just over two weeks if China refuses to help reopen ...

U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran have damaged at least four cultural and historical sites, including palaces and an ancient mosque, raising alarms about the impact of the widening war on protected ...

The global population of Buddhists shrank by roughly 5% between 2010 and 2020, the sole major religious group to decline.

A 2025 satellite photo shows a giant "Y" in the middle of the Taklamakan Desert, where a verdant river and a lengthy ...

Every week, we recap highlights of the news from China. This edition looks at China’s reaction to events concerning Iran, signals from a key policy meeting and the latest in the state’s ongoing ...